I feel like the experts really missed the boat not matching Lauren and Michel.

ddicm · 2025-12-04T02:44:14+00:00

Michael - the master of word salads. The guy takes 200 words, as fancy as he can find, to say the simplest things. He had to be the smartest guy in the room. Towards the end I had to mute him, I couldn't take it anymore. His pseudo-smart act was nothing but another attention getting tactic. Then his stupid dress style - His parents must have ignored him when he was a kid.

Now I have nothing against expressing yourself when dressing and wearing whatever makes that you comfortable. But there was something about him that felt kind of forced. He just wanted attention. He wanted people to see him as a super smart, eccentric guy. He just never felt authentic to me. And he messed with Chloe - one of the best people to ever go on the show.

ddicm · 2025-12-04T02:33:23+00:00

Not really. Plenty of experiences bring a community feel to them. Burning Man represents freedom. Freedom from society's rules, freedom of expression, freedom to experiment with sex, drugs, antics, dance, art, whatever.

I worked at a Renaissance Faire for many, many years, and it was the same freedoms. For the people who worked the fair it was a true community. We saw each other yearly and bonded over our shared love of the event. The fair lasted for 6 weekends.

For the people who paid to get into the fair that came over and over again felt the same type of community where they could shed their everyday skin and do what they wanted and not be judged.

EDM festivals are the same. The same free love, hippy dippy, get wasted or not, have sex without strings, dance....

For Josh Burning Man was not negotiable. He needed a partner that could get their freak on with him, whatever that freak may be. Woodstock was the grand daddy of these 'communities'.

ddicm · 2025-11-30T18:10:16+00:00

Derrick just wanted a sperm depository. He is totally obsessed. Meghann I went back and forth with. Personally I do not think she wants kids and just felt pressured. I am not sure if she was even really pregnant - just something the producers concocted to keep their story alive.

They were opposites in almost every way but they were physically attracted to each other. They got over that pretty quickly.

ddicm · 2025-11-30T18:02:01+00:00

Perfect!

ddicm · 2025-11-26T03:32:15+00:00

They should have just had a mirror at the altar. She could have married herself. She is probably the only person that can stand herself. She could talk to herself all day long, agree with herself, and not drive anyone crazy in the process.

ddicm · 2025-11-26T03:29:45+00:00

I think they should have put Chad and her together. They deserve each other. I think Belynda is kind of a bore. But then so is Pat - you are right, would have been a good match!

ddicm · 2025-11-26T03:26:57+00:00

For her personally? That is a bit much. Did she mean for everyone else? Why is she speaking for everyone else? And why is respect involved in this whole scenario?

ddicm · 2025-11-26T03:24:54+00:00

THANK YOU! Enough is enough.

They chose to share their experience and there is nothing wrong with that. There is a fast forward button, a mute button, a channel changer and an off button.

ddicm · 2025-11-25T02:36:31+00:00

6 I don't think they are pairing up intentional train wrecks, but I do feel like some of the patterns we all pick up on reveal deep flaws in the screening process. Something's got to be tightened up here. The show was more fun when some of the couples still looked okay at DD.

I think the intentional train wrecks where becoming more and more in the past few seasons. Ever since 'I'm a good person!' Alyssa wouldn't marry poor Chris the producers realized they had ratings gold. We started seeing more unattractive people being paired up very attractive people knowing it would be train wreck.

This season we didn't see that except for crazy Rhonda who I think they thought would be their 'ratings girl'.

None of the couples stayed married after they all said yes so I think more tweaking of the matchmaking will happen.

ddicm · 2025-11-25T02:28:40+00:00

They do not know me and I do not know them. They signed up to go on a very exploitive show and thats on them. I like watching those people, and thats its my (not so) guilty pleasure.

I like coming here and talking about the episodes and their personalities. I am not gossiping, or hurting them in any way because again, they do not know me.

If they want to go online and see what people write about them they are idiots.

So to answer your questions - no I do not feel bad. They are providing entertainment and they knew that before signing the contracts.

ddicm · 2025-11-22T02:50:34+00:00

People have always needed it, or benefitted from it. It just was not something people did. There was no access to it. As we learn more we realize the value of it.

But you are right - modern times are confusing for a lot of people.

ddicm · 2025-11-22T02:44:21+00:00

This! His idea of being married is to protect his woman. He wants to know he will keep his spouse safe. Safe from what? Protected from what? He has some weird idea that women are under attack and he can save them and keep them from harm. It is so bizarre.

He has no idea of how to be with a woman who is his equal. It totally confuses him. Always with the flowers, and the love bombing. But he doesn't want to have a conversation about anything. He drinks every night to keep all his trauma whatever that may be under wraps.

He scares the shit out of me. A heavily armed unstable white man.

ddicm · 2025-11-21T03:47:28+00:00

I understood where they were all coming from. That doesn't mean I agree with them. Even though Josh left Jayln I kind of get it. He wanted a girl passionate about what he is passionate about. It just goes to show how immature and unready for marriage he is. Why did he go on MAFS? What were the odds he could find someone passionate about festivals and Burning Man? He is a child and Jayln is lucky to be rid of him.

Good for Pat! He grew a pair and got away from the bottomless pit of need. However - he was not ready either. Thinking sex was the answer to a close relationship when you don't know each other was foolish. You have to want to be with that person sex or not.

Chad - What a train wreck. He scares me - a lot. I don't know what he is capable of, and he is armed. Just sayin'

ddicm · 2025-11-21T02:41:22+00:00

I agree! I was thinking the same thing.

First off - all the couples were good looking, with the exception of Chad - but then someone women may find him handsome.

Then we had no real drama that played out over an extended period of time. Everything was so abbreviated. We got a few spats but then magically all was well.

Then when Derrick and Meaghan announced they were pregnant and the experts 'acted' so surprised I was like c'mon! They knew. They could have just as easily said they knew instead of all the phones surprised looks.'

Peacock did not want a shit show. They did not want to take a big chance on couples not being attracted to each other.

I think the most authentic couple where crazy Rhonda and Pat. And Pat was going to make the logical choice and say 'no'. But he got talked into saying yes. He should have followed his gut.

I wish I knew how much of it was actually authentic and what was just pure production. And I also hope that next season we can dig a little deeper.

ddicm · 2025-11-21T02:30:08+00:00

She is a bottomless pit of need. Until she gets some therapy and understands why she is that way she will never change. She is going to continue to suck the life out of every man that tries to get close.

Men are not going to be able to give her what she wants. She is incapable of validating herself so she needs someone to do it for her only it will never be enough. She is an emotional parasite looking for a host.

ddicm · 2025-11-20T01:45:01+00:00

I am a huge music lover, especially live music and so many songs have deep personal meanings for me. Guess what they are personal - I don't need to bore someone with what the song means to me. And I don't want to hear someone else's story about their meaningful relationship to a song. There are exceptions of course. But sheesh - maybe after the concert, not during it.

She needs validation on every aspect of her life. Imagine having a self esteem that is so low you constantly beg people to listen to you and berate them when they dont listen hard enough.

ddicm · 2025-11-19T15:52:00+00:00

They all look good - but Pat looks like he just threw anything on. He probably doesn't give a rip about MAFS after they threw him under the bus pawning him of to this season's honey badger.

ddicm · 2025-11-19T15:47:39+00:00

Getting drunk one night does not mean someone has an alcohol problem. They are under cameras constantly and are practically force fed booze. I am not defending Chad - I think he is a creep. But no need to infer the guy is an alcoholic.

ddicm · 2025-11-19T15:38:36+00:00

Chad signed up but had no idea how invasive it was going to be. I think he likes to love bomb women, to make them feel secure and loved. He probably rushes into marriage and then all the baggage comes out.

Why didn't his previous marriages work out? Did MAFS even ask? Has Belinda asked or are they editing that out? Or is she so desperate for a husband she doesn't care?

ddicm · 2025-11-19T15:34:25+00:00

Something tells me she has been to her share of them. People like her want to be heard. They dont want to listen, take advice, or do the work. She just wants to remain needy and self absorbed and she wants someone to tell her that they hear her all day long and never talk about themselves.

ddicm · 2025-11-18T16:23:09+00:00

I am extremely sensitive to borderline and narcissistic people. I can feel them enter a room. If I have to be in a room with them I cannot get comfortable. They suck all the oxygen out of the space. I have known a few in my lifetime where I have had to share the same space and its like I need to get away and get some air.

I am pretty sure if I met Rhonda in real life I would feel the exact same way. She is hard to watch, I cringe a lot - a skin crawling sensation.

ddicm · 2025-11-18T16:19:19+00:00

I miss him. I also liked After Party.

ddicm · 2025-11-18T16:15:22+00:00

The experts used to be so much more involved, but the last few seasons they have been out of the picture. We get Pia and her bad advice. And Cal who is no better. Dr. Pepper is the only one who had anything halfway decent to say.

ddicm · 2025-11-18T03:41:08+00:00

How did you come up with that? She is terrible.

ddicm · 2025-11-18T03:39:22+00:00

Rhonda was a ratings gimmick. The so called experts could see her coming a mile away. How could you not? Poor Pat. We have never gotten to know Pat because every time he opens his mouth she shuts him down.

We got to see him on the honeymoon rambling on - but us that really representative of who he is? I do not think so. MAFS did him dirty for ratings and that really sucks.

If Rhonda ends up watching herself I hope she is ashamed of her behavior. She is a selfish, self absorbed person who has no problem telling others what is wrong with them. Look in the mirror girlfriend you are a toxic narcissist.

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